Historiography

In the 5th century BCE, Herodotus wrote the first known Western history to build on the tradition of Homeric storytelling, basing his text on empir...

The Historiography of Philosophy is the text, virtually unchanged, of the Nellie Wallace lectures, which Michael Frede gave in Oxford in 1989-90. I...

Winner, 2023 Toshihide Numata Book Award, Numata Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of California, BerkeleySince the early days of Buddh...

Winner, 2023 Toshihide Numata Book Award, Numata Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of California, BerkeleySince the early days of Buddh...

The twelfth-century chronicle of John Zonaras, which begins with the biblical Creation and ends in 1118, is one of the longest historical accounts ...

This book provides an analytical overview of the vast range of historiography which was produced in western Europe over a thousand-year period betw...

Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch: From Hagiography to History is a study of the authority of the holy man and its limits in tim...

Until very recently, historians have looked at the past with the tools of the nineteenth century. But globalization has fundamentally altered our w...

Political upheaval has marked Iran's history throughout the twentieth century. Wars, revolutions, coups and the impact of modernism have shaped Ira...

The first work to systematically investigate the potential for a dialogue between postcolonial studies and the history of Zionism.   There is an “u...

The Norman Conquest in English History, Volume 1: A Broken Chain? pursues a central theme in English historical thinking over seven centuries. Cove...

In this stimulating and highly original study of the writing of American history, twenty-four scholars from eleven European countries explore the i...

'History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon', said Napoleon. Yet the actual writing of history, especially ancien...

The Fall of a Carolingian Kingdom investigates how the first royal divorce scandal led to the collapse of a kingdom, changing the fate of medieval ...

History students read a lot. They read primary sources. They read specialized articles and monographs. They sometimes read popular histories. And t...

There can be few historical figures who have made such a powerful impact on the popular imagination as the Roman emperor Caligula (died AD 41). Yet...

With the growth of postcolonial theory in recent decades, scholarly views of Roman imperialism and colonialism have been evolving and shifting. Muc...

Postmodern, postcolonial and post-truth are broadly used terms. But where do they come from? When and why did the habit of interpreting the world i...

The father of the legendary Ottoman sultan Suleyman the Magnificent, Selim I ("The Grim") set the stage for centuries of Ottoman supremacy by doubl...

The Fall of a Carolingian Kingdom investigates how the first royal divorce scandal led to the collapse of a kingdom, changing the fate of medieval ...

A fresh translation of The New Science, with detailed footnotes that will help both the scholar and the new reader navigate Vico’s masterpieceThe N...

What are the archives of gay and lesbian leather histories, and how have contemporary artists mined these archives to create a queer politics of th...

What are the archives of gay and lesbian leather histories, and how have contemporary artists mined these archives to create a queer politics of th...

Increasingly, scholars in the humanities are calling for a reengagement with the natural sciences. Taking their cues from recent breakthroughs in g...

This study draws on the life of renowned historian, Robert H. Ferrell, to explore issues related to the history profession. Ferrell’s life story co...

Afghanistan has been a theatre of civil and international conflict for much of the twentieth century – stability is essential if there is to be pea...

The meaning of the American Revolution has always been a much-contested question, and asking it is particularly important today: the standard, easi...

This book introduces students and professional historians to the main areas of concern in the history of emotions and its intersection with emotion...